Percy (Percival) Charles Apthorpe
Born 1889 (Circa)
Active: 1911 - 1930
Country of birth and death: Australia
Sculptor, architectural sculptor, carver, modeller
Born in Sydney, New South Wales but of British nationality. Possibly served in the Royal Engineers 1/26 London Regiment and received the Victory medal, regimental Number: 152779, 412. May be the Percy C. Apthorpe whose death was registered between April and June 1960 in Ealing, London. [See Registration district: Ealing; Inferred County: Middlesex; Volume: 5e; Page: 166, England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007]
Apthorpe's headed paper (c.1929-30) states: 'Architectural sculptor, carver and modeller. Estimates given for stone, marble, wood and fibrous plaster work of every description. Agent for the insurance of fine art.'
Locations
Address 147 Oxberry Avenue Fulham London SW | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Ran a business at 105 Fulham Road London SW3 | View on map
1929 (Circa) - 1930 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Employee of Charles Sargeant Jagger
1929 (Circa) - 1930 (Circa)
£250
In 1929 provided an estimate of £250 for carving the 'Shipbuilding group' on the ICI building in Portland stone. This was to be 'properly boasted to details supplied and finished at my premises', stone to be delivered to Apthorpe's workshop. The estimate excludes extra work if the stone is 'faulty'. A receipt dated 22 July 1930 confirms the work was completed
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' and employer listed as 'architectural sculptors'
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN342 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED5 SN185
Papers of Charles Sargeant Jagger 1885-c.1980
3 items of correspondence: 2 estimates dated 5 December 1929 and 5 June 1930 and 1 receipt dated 22 July 1930
Citing this record
'Percy (Percival) Charles Apthorpe', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1272733075, accessed 29 Jan 2023]
